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Actor Leonardo DiCaprio, who stars as a high-living stock swindler in The Wolf of Wall Street, tells NPR's David Greene that it was "incredibly freeing" to play a character with no moral high ground.

John C. "Chris" Inglis, who retires Friday after more than seven years as the National Security Agency's No. 2, speaks with Morning Edition's Steve Inskeep about running a spy agency in a democracy.

The Academy Award-winning actor speaks with us about his reunion with Meryl Streep and thinking about his late son Jesse while making the film "August: Osage County."

Authorities have told people in nine West Virginia counties not to drink, cook, bathe or wash clothes with tap water, after a chemical spill into the Elk River in Charleston.

Bell County, Kentucky, which is in the heart of impoverished coal country, has a 17 percent jobless rate. We speak with the county Judge/Executive there, who's optimistic about the program.

In 1960, McCain sat down with three friends and made civil rights history when the young men who became known as the "Greensboro Four" integrated a North Carolina lunch counter. McCain died Friday.

Raising the minimum wage has become a focus for Democrats both in Congress and in statehouses around the nation. But anywhere it's on the ballot, expect an aggressive campaign to defeat it.

Just as the Senate seemed to descend into another round of partisan gridlock, this time over extending emergency jobless benefits, the arrival of a surprisingly weak December jobs report raised the pressure on lawmakers to act.

For the fifth straight year, Nevada's big casinos report net losses – a total of $1.35 billion in the most recent fiscal year. Statewide, 263 casinos grossed at least $1 million in gaming revenue, totaling $23 billion, according to a report released by the Nevada Gaming Control Board.

The upscale retailer isn't yet saying how many customers might be at risk, but it is confirming that a breach of credit card data took place. The company says it learned of "potentially unauthorized payment card activity" before Christmas.